Word: railroads
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mayors came & went. In 1869 the transcontinental railroad arrived and the few San Franciscans who had managed to make and hold their fortunes built wooden castles on Nob Hill. The thousands who had not, organized. Subsequently the organized put Eugene E. Schmitz of the Musicians' Union into City Hall...
...cast of characters has taken over the roles once played by railroad tycoon Mark Hopkins; by Educators Emma Marwedel ("Have faith in the kindergartens") and Kate Douglas Wiggin (Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch); by Socialite Mrs. Hall McAllister; by Author Jack London; even by "Cowboy Maggie" Kelly...
...told them I had been much amused at the fact that they took me for a fake American, just as I thought they were fake Poles. They laughed, and asked about Germany. Was it true that the Russians also, like the British and Americans, were using Germans as railroad guards and policemen in their respective zones? Why did they behave so foolishly? I asked them about the elections. It was reported that they were arresting many oppositionists. Was this true? The Major shook his head: "Every day we have cases of bandits attacking Government officials, plotting the collapse...
Alfred M. Landon, 58, an old hand at coming a cropper, nursed a broken toe after too much horsing around for one day. Alf was out for a canter along the railroad tracks north of Topeka when a train came around the bend. The rider reined in, and his horse started up an embankment, then fell back on the Landon toe. The train roared...
...Chose Freedom is the rehearsal, some 250,000 words long. The curtain rises in 1905, when Kravchenko was born in the Ukraine, son of a railroad worker. After the 1917 revolution, he says, his father exclaimed joyfully: "Now people will be free. It was worth fighting for." But Father soon changed his mind, having "no stomach for dictatorship and terror . . . even under a red flag." Victor, however, joined the Communist Party in 1929. "It seemed to me the greatest event in my life. . . . I was dedicated forever to an ideal and a cause...